For just a few seconds, Rams rookie defensive end Matt Longacre could only imagine the worst.
“We had a meeting and when I went back to my locker, all my stuff was gone,’’ he recalled. “For about 30 seconds, I was freaking out. It was like, ‘Oh no, what just happened?’”
But after a walk around the locker room at Rams Park, Longacre found that his “stuff” had been moved to a spot closer to the other defensive linemen.
“To me, it’s a big deal,” Longacre said.
An undersized and undrafted free agent from Division II Northwest Missouri State, Longacre has earned his spot — in the locker room and on the playing field — with the Rams.